3BL Media Corporate Social Responsible News and Commentary

PeaceKeeper launched a 75% organic lip gloss with the UNIFEM - The United Nation's Development Fund For Women and its Trust Fund To Eliminate Violence Against Women - to raise awareness about UNIFEM's important global work. UNIFEM is the women's fund at the United Nations, dedicated to advancing women's rights and achieving gender equality. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programs and strategies that foster women's empowerment.

That's right. Are you pissed off, over it, fed up, incensed? Well, we want to know about it. PeaceKeeper Cause-Metics, the first cosmetics company to give donations to urgent human rights issues LOVES RIGHTEOUS ANGER…yes, we do. Righteous anger is what has transformed all sorts of despicable things throughout human history. So, we want to know what you are pissed off about, what you are doing about it, and what ideas you have on how to transform it. Send us a short-ish video using speech, song, poetry, drum-beating, plate smashing and/or any other creative methods your emotions can conjure and tell us what you are mad as hell about that will inspire others to get angry and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT with you. Of course it would help if you included our company's name, PEACEKEEPER, in the video. After all, we aren't going to wait for the next generation to call B***-S*** by its real name. OUR time has come right now!

Micro-lending website Kiva.org recently hit a major milestone. Since launching four years ago, the organization has facilitated $100 million in microloan transactions between individual lenders and low income entrepreneurs all around the world. Lots of charities target the poor, you may ask, so what makes this organization unique? It's the approach. In order to achieve its mission of connecting people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty, Kiva employs a strategy of inclusion. It turns what was once an opaque process in both lending and charitable giving on its head, creating greater levels of personal involvement and future commitment. A few weeks ago Kiva founder Premal Shah described this process to an audience of thousands at the 2009 Women's Conference, saying: "When you give to big organizations, you don't know where your money is going. Here you do. There are short feedback loops and direct transparency. When you browse entrepreneurs' profiles on Kiva, choose someone to lend to, and then make a loan, you know exactly where your money is going. You can see that you are helping a real person make great strides towards economic independence. Because of the technology we enable, you get an e-mail from that person and establish a connection. That makes it personal."

Is paying out Big Bonuses the "Christian" thing to do? If you happened to be present in the Anglican Church on London's Trafalgar Square a few nights ago, you might believe it to be so.

McKesson has partnered with humanitarian organization World Vision to provide more than 175,000 World Vision Caregiver Kits to local community caregivers who care for those living with AIDS in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Green Officer Training is exactly what it sounds like. We offer a complete training program into two and a half, fast-paced days, and show any business how to properly install an environmental program that anyone can appreciate.

The Centre for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE) in North America is proud to announce it will be hosting its IEMA Workshop titled, "Certified CSR Practitioner IEMA Approved", on February 9-10, 2010 for the second time in Chicago.

In a few weeks, representatives from around the world will convene in Copenhagen, under the auspices of the United Nations, to focus on a new international agreement on climate change. This is a very important moment for the world. The world needs the US to set an example, something that could be achieved should the bill concerning the reduction of carbon emissions be passed. However, the bill, currently being discussed by the Senate, will probably not be passed in time for Copenhagen. Polls also indicate that ordinary Americans are becoming less engaged with climate change issues.

The Eco Institution, a San Diego-based environmental education and training firm, today announced the release of a new and enhanced "Green Consultant" certification and training course. The new online course is intended to make it easier than ever before for home-service professionals and other interested individuals to become Certified Green Consultants, and thereafter to deliver "Green Consulting" services to homeowners, businesses, and organizations in their neighborhoods and communities.

CorporateRegister.com is pleased to announce that the full NEWSWEEK GREEN RANKINGS REPORT is now available to purchase at http://www.corporateregister.com/greenranking.html.

Friends and fellow Colorado Rocky Mountain School juniors Kelsey Bohannon and JJ Worley recently found a way to help needy people around the world, and keep what otherwise would be trash out of area landfills. Through the Soles4Souls shoe charity, they collected some 500 pairs of used shoes from throughout the Roaring Fork Valley. The shoes will be sent to a warehouse in Nevada, and eventually shipped to villages around the world where people cannot afford to buy shoes themselves. "I heard about it and it just interested me as a way for people do something for those in need without sending money," said Bohannon, 16, who lives in Glenwood Springs.

McKesson Corporation, the nation's oldest and largest healthcare services and IT company, today announced the release of its 2008-2009 Corporate Citizenship Report and launched the McKesson Foundation's new strategic focus on chronic disease management. Designed to minimize paper and energy usage, the Company's new online-only interactive report tells McKesson's corporate citizenship story through the voices of McKesson employees and stakeholders. McKesson's Corporate Citizenship Report is available at www.mckesson.com/citizenshipreport.

PCI-Media Impact, a New York-based non-profit with 25 years experience using communications for development, is initiating its sixth year of the My Community program on November 2 with an international training on Entertainment Education and Social Marketing in Lima, Peru. The 32 selected participants - including radio hosts, journalists, community activists, and professors- representing Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, will participate in a five-day hands-on training and learn how to design, produce and broadcast entertaining radio soap operas that address urgent community needs.

Nonprofit Executive Compensation: Planning, Performance, and Pay by Brian H. Vogel and Charles W. Quatt Ph.D., is a practical step-by-step guide and reference that will help you establish an effective compensation structure.

Which CR reports come top of the pile? You decide! The third global independent CR Reporting Awards are open for voting. Help set the standard for CR Reporting and vote now.

Launched today, naumesfruitgifts.com is a new, socially responsible gift giving solution that delivers delicious pear gift boxes to family and friends, and a matching donation of fresh fruit to food banks that feed hungry families. The first of its kind, the Donate Fruit program provides a new way to give and represents a growing demand nationwide for quality gifts that give back.

The Christmas SPIRIT Foundation is organizing locally-hosted events (called TweetUp4Troops) during Veterans Day week (Saturday, Nov. 7 through Saturday, Nov. 14). The local TweetUp4Troops events are designed to generate funds to support the Foundation's Trees for Troops program. To date, Trees for Troops has touched 50,082 military families by providing them a fresh, farm-grown Christmas tree for the holidays. With your help, TweetUp4Troops can spread the joy to many more families!

From a community radio in the Department of Petén, Guatemala, various characters talk about sex and condoms. In another radio station in the small Nicaraguan town of Somoto, near the Honduran border, a fiery dialogue is heard between Don Guillermo, a rich land owner that recklessly exploits the land, and his son, Willy, who follows in his father's footsteps, degrading the environment and sexually abusing girls from the area. Meanwhile, in Ecuador, in the city of Jipijapa, Manabí, those that tune in to Radio Alfaro 96.1 hear the story of a young girl overcoming the challenges of teen pregnancy, on the weekly broadcast of "Domingo 7."

Following a unique challenge issued by the First Lady, The George Washington University and VolunteerMatch have partnered to launch a new Web site that will enable the GW student body to inspire and track the 100,000 hours of service that Mrs. Obama challenged the University to complete by May 1, 2010.

Even with our students' robust academic and active schedules, we encourage them to participate in clubs of their choice. These clubs are student organized and run, affording more freedom in the activities offered and in opportunities for leadership. Students may get as involved in the clubs as they'd like and, of course, extra-curricular activities look good on college applications.